The South, and a Few Other States, Shall Rise Again

In what sounds like a whole lot of butthurt from a few states, petitions have been filed on the White House’s “We the People” petitioning site asking to secede from the United States.

So far, petitions from Louisiana and Texas have garnered the most signatures, each with over 12,ooo as of today. In order for a petition to reach the Obama administration, the petition must have 25,ooo signatures or more within 30 days.

And, though with lesser signatures than those two states, similar petitions have also been found for Alabama, Tennessee, Oregon, Kentucky, Montana, North Dakota, Mississippi, North Carolina, Florida, Georgia, New York, New Jersey, Colorado, Arkansas, South Carolina, and Missouri, all of them receiving thousands of signatures over the weekend.

The petitions themselves won’t actually do much as far as the right to secession goes, since the Supreme Court ruled that unilateral secession was unconstitutional; however, it remains to be seen whether this could begin the discussion of secession for some states and if this is a serious attempt or just a knee-jerk response to the election results from last Tuesday.

If we’re all going to be starting our own state-countries, then I vote for Cascadia. British Columbia and Oregon…won’t you join us here in Washington? Look at our awesome flag!